Fruit and like peeler



Aug. 19, 1930 A. HAPPE FRUIT AND LIKE PEELER Filed Oct. 1. 1927 /nrenlor:

Patented Aug. 19, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT oF-F ca sooner aura, or nmnna-vannnrnnn, Nana nanvnn, enema, sssrenoa, BY. Imam; nssmmann'rs, 'ro comm rnonuc'rs courm, or en. Louis, mssounr FRUIT AN D LIKE FEEDER Application filed October 1, 1927. Serial no. 223,398.

This invention relates to a device for eeling vfruit, potatoes and the like and o the kind wherein the fruit is turned and advanced by means of a screw spindle relative to an oscillatorycutter arm mounted on a swivelled support, which .is turned by means of a rod connecting it with the screw-spindle,

' and the invention consists in providing the support with a sprin adapted to restore it and th spindle to their initial positions when the screw-spindle is released in known manner from its nut element.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a side view of the device,

Fig. 2, a section on the li-ne2-2 of Fig. 1, gig. 3, a section on the line3 -3 of Fig. 2, an

Fig. 4, a section on the line H of Fig. 2.

The device consists of aframe awhich is adapted to be attached by means of a clamp screw to a table top orthe like.- A screwspindle b is held in a socket in the frame so that it can be moved therein'in a slidable 1 manner, and a nut element is held by a pivoted hand lever m so that it can be applied radially to the spindle-for controlling the same and remove to slide. The spindle is fitted at one end with a crank handle 12. and carries at the other-end a spear c to which the fruit or the like is aplied so that it'can be turned andadvanced y means of the screw-spindle. A peeling cutter is mounted in an arm 0 which is carried by a swivelled support 6 and adapted to oscillate about a pivot p. A crank p1n g on the support 6 is connected by means of a rod ,0! to the screw-spindle so that axial displacement of the latter will cause the support 6 to um for adjusting the oscillating plane of the arm 0 in proportion to'the advance. of the fruit. A spring 1* acts on the arm so as to hold the cutter against the fruit and cause it tofollowthe undulationsrof the same.

According to the invention, the pivot pin f which holds the support .e is embraced by a coil spring 72. one end i of which is secured to the pin while the other end I: is, enga ed in a slit 7 in the carrier bracket 9. his

spring tends to maintain the cutter in the starting position which is substantially in so as to allow the .spindle.

for said arm, a screw-spindle for turning and advancing the fruit relative to the cutter arm, a rod connecting the spindle with saidsupport so as to turn it under the influence of the axial movement of the spindle, and means for releasing the spindle from its screw control, of a spring controlling said support so positions when the s in leis released.

7 ,2. A fruit and li e peeling device of the character described, comprising in combination a frame, an oscillatory cutter arm, a su port for said arm, a pivotpin holding t e support in said frame so that it can be turned as to restore it and the s indie to their initial for adjusting the oscillating plane of thearm,

a screw-spindle mounted in said frame for turning and advancing the fruitrelative to the cutter arm, the nutelement for saidv spindle being radially detachable for releasing the spindle, a rod eonnect ing the spindle "with said'support so as to turn the latter owing to the axial movement of the spindle, and a coil spring connected at one end to said pivot pin and at the other end to the frame so p l i as to oppose the movement of the support andrestore it and the spindle to their initial positions when the spindle is released fromthe .nut element.

3. A paring device comprising a support, a

rotatable plate with an arm swinging thereon, a knife on the arm, a. fender on the arm to determine the depth ofthe cut by the knife,

a screw-threaded rod for holding the article I "to be pared, means for rotating the rod whereby it is advanced, a connection from the rod to the plate and a nut movable lateral- 1y from the rod to'permit the 'quick return thereof, and a spring to return the rod-and the rotatable plate when the nut is released.

AUGUSTIH PPE. 

